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Title: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: Tris on December 23, 2009, 08:38:06 am

http://nikon.com/about/news/2009/1221_NASA-D3S_01.htm (http://nikon.com/about/news/2009/1221_NASA-D3S_01.htm)

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: dave on December 23, 2009, 09:09:37 am

keeping up tradition of nasa going with nikon or hasselblad:

(http://www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/photographier_le_spatial/ISS/photo%20nikon%20F4%2002.jpg)

(http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/atmosphaerenfahrt/22_mondfotos-o-mondfotograf-d/006-kamera-hasselblad-an-brust-montiert-training-apollo-13-3-2-1970-Jim-Lovell-70-HC-74-55pr.jpg)

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: tomtom on December 23, 2009, 09:37:58 am

Quote from: dave on December 23, 2009, 09:09:37 am

keeping up tradition of nasa going with nikon or hasselblad:

(http://www.geschichteinchronologie.ch/atmosphaerenfahrt/22_mondfotos-o-mondfotograf-d/006-kamera-hasselblad-an-brust-montiert-training-apollo-13-3-2-1970-Jim-Lovell-70-HC-74-55pr.jpg)

Some interesting cloud formations on the moon there...
gosh, it must be a fake - we never went to the moon did we..??  ;)

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: slackline on December 23, 2009, 10:43:20 am

There' going to be some fighting on the ISS for first dibs on the lenses (eleven bodies but only seven lenses ordered).

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: tomtom on December 23, 2009, 11:56:21 am

Quote from: slack---line on December 23, 2009, 10:43:20 am

There' going to be some fighting on the ISS for first dibs on the lenses (eleven bodies but only seven lenses ordered).

;D

They should have seen that coming!

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: Tris on December 23, 2009, 05:18:38 pm

They're geniuses them NASA lot  ;D

Title: Re: NASA choose Nikon
Post by: tomtom on December 23, 2009, 05:35:16 pm

Quote from: Tris on December 23, 2009, 05:18:38 pm

They're geniuses them NASA lot  ;D

Yup - better make sure those lenses and camera's are both in metric not 'English' units...  :-\